Greg McNevin : Open Document Foundation Abandons Namesake, Closes up Shop - 0 views
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The decision to go with CDF has left some industry commentators scratching their heads, with arstechnica.com’s Ryan Paul noting that the decision is curious as CDF doesn't support “the full range of functionality required for office compatibility”. Paul does add, however, that the formats broad use of formats such as XHTML and SVG does give it a compelling edge.
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The W3C's Chris Lilley, IBM and the lawyer for OASIS have been making quite a bit of noise claiming that CDF doesn't support "the full range of functionality required for office compatibility".
This a strange claim, especially when considering IBM as the primary source. CDF WiCD Full 1.0 is a desktop profile for CDF. Other profiles include WICD Mobile and WICD Core. The call for implementations for WICD core, mobile and full went out on Monday, November 12, 2007.
To understand cdf, one must first get a handle on the terms used to describe cdf technologies.
..... CDF= compound document formats
..... CDRF= compound document by reference framework
..... WICD = Web Integration Compound Document
..... CDR using WICD = Compound Document by Reference using a WICD profile, (Core, Full or Mobile)
..... Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0
..... WICD Core 1.0
..... WICD Mobile 1.0 profile
..... WICD Full 1.0 profile
The WICD Full 1.0 profile is the "DESKTOP" profile for CDF.
Some interesting Quotes:
"WICD Full 1.0 is targeted at desktop agents".
"The WICD Full 1.0 profile is designed to enable rich multimedia content on desktop and high capability handheld agents."
From the Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0 :
"The capability to view documents with preserved formatting, layout, images and graphics and interactive features such as zooming in and out and multi-page handling."
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